bee wertheimer

that’s a wrap on my time at pcmag, so hello! i'm bee, a games and digital culture essayist who's written for kotaku, a.v. club, unwinnable, aftermath, and more. if you need a writer hit my line at beewertheimer [at] gmail [dot] com check out my work at beewertheimer.com

there is no reason to fear files on my computer. files on my computer cannot hurt me.

Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft https://kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoe-is-on-the-other-foot-microsoft-and-epic-games-suddenly-agree-that-ai-is-theft-2000749316

really cool project and im deeply humbled to have written one of the example essays!

babe wake up new(ish) reason to live just dropped

very neat to see my article in jack's latest! go watch it

i can’t help but notice that i too have big wet creepy blue eyes and yet not a single investor has given me millions of dollars to do nothing

I'll be honest, there is nothing more demoralizing to me than devs saying "I know AI is built on theft, and anti-labour, and harms the environment, but I'm going to use it anyway bc I don't believe individual choices matter". This is how a movement fails. www.molleindustria.org/blog/future-...

My body doesn't know the difference between my life being under threat and seeing that an editor is leaving comments in a draft

yearly reminder to hop on the annual ghost town pumpkin festival! www.avclub.com/the-annual-g...

blogging some of my feelings jannouna.dev/the-last-day/

I've been on a bit of a vibe-coded beat lately, which is why I thought it was pertinent to ask some experts about the video game industry's future Thank you to both @coppolaemilio.com and @luked.bsky.social for lending their expertise to this one, and also for helping to end it on a hopeful note

if you happened to miss the deluxe edition of my book in its initial pre-order period, there's a [small] restock now!!! 💜 (it is so fucking wild to see goddamn wario64 posting my book)

if you are pure of heart the women in New York will be nice to you. They will take care of you.

slipping of the hourglass

what the hell are any of you talking about ever

sunflowers

We could all stand to be meaner to men actually

sky’s cool

Like a whole thing that’s troubling with genAI is the way that it is reducing the complexity of labor and craft down to superficial shit that a machine can do poorly, and convincing people who aren’t technically minded that it’s the same. That’s existentially terrifying to me personally!

Wolverine was such a mediocre, boring experience it caused me to spiral about the Cinematic Video Game Industrial Complex and my job as a critic. come for me tearing Logan apart, stay for Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert

micaela’s wolverine review is transcendent. read it!!

yesterday i had the great honor of explaining to my friend who hatsune miku was

sometimes it's literally like these are the people that i get drunk with these are the people that i fall in love with

several hidden shots to the chest how did you get everyone to think that you were depressed? tell me if it's not on purpose, why'd you do it again? just admit it, you don't have a world that you're up against

Hey NYC, my game / cabinet Waddle Throttle is launching at @wonderville.nyc alongside @andymakes.itch.io super cool Rocket Dog and we are having a party to celebrate on Oct 24th! Come on out !!! www.wonderville.nyc/events/dogs-...

You know I would really love making video games if I didn't really hate making video games

Here's my next game, ROTETRA, a tetromino stacker where you spin the whole board and juggle multiple pieces at once! It's a little bit cursed, but I've been having fun making it! Play the demo (and wishlist 👉👈): store.steampowered.com/app/4306820/... also, on web: sharkwithlasers.itch.io/rotetra

phrases that strike fear into my heart 1. "i've heard a lot about you" - awful. could literally mean anything 2. "i think i've seen your posts online" - horrible. i say anything on here 3. "i read your blog" - terrifying. i didn't think anyone did that except my mother

feelin like rhythm heaven groove sneezy moon

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

This week has been brutal. Whether we’re talking about it publicly or not, I think it’s safe to assume most (all?) the women in your life are some level of not-OK right now. I’m grateful for the people who are finding the words for this moment. I only have sadness and screaming to offer.

spooky season begins!

I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

May the world we rebuild on the ashes of this rotten one be better.

gave the bartender my name to close my tab the other night and he said "wait, your last name's warhammer?"

if you have a couple dollars, or even many dollars, to give to an outlet you love, please make it stop caring artemis is one of the best editors i know, an incredible writer and a beautiful, vast soul. stop caring deserves to live on. please, if you can support the site, do 💜

is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com

Apropos of nothing, here's the callout I wrote for Eurogamer about the glaring lack of female voices in the games media. I wrote this in *2018*. Things did seem to get better for a while but now we're backsliding again and the reasons for it haven't changed. www.eurogamer.net/why-the-game...

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

recent photos from the outside world